Can you say graft and corruption? Chicago style?
snort!
“I can tell you with 100 percent certainty that Michelle Obama was not part of our lobbying over the request, not in any way,” Kelly Sullivan, another vice president at the medical center, told the New York Times.
Oh no, of course she wasn’t.
Obama earmarked a mill for himself!
Digusting!
First, I know we don't like the guy, so I expected to find a "bridge to nowhere"..and intended to pass it on, then upon reading the story and researching a little found it sadly paled to the long term relationship with Rev. Wright's hate white USAKKK speech, Black Jesus, Chickens Come Home to Roost-9/11 etc.
The earmarks were nothing highly irregular or unusual, compared to requests by other politicians in our other states for science, industry, military contracts,hospitals,fishing industry, study of the sex life of the fruit fly, etc., in other states. They also benefit not a select few but all of the citizens of every community in Illinois.
University of Chicago Medical Center : Noted: Turned Down.The request for $1 million for the University of Chicago Medical Center was to help pay for construction of a pavilion that could increase its capacity for treating patients by one-third."
(But one of the best medical centers in the country, if I were seriously ill, would be one of the first I would pick!)
$1.3 million for a high-explosive technology program for the Army’s Bradley Fighting Vehicle.(Military)
$10 million for a military arsenal in Rock Island.(Military)
Several million dollars for research on soybean disease (farming big business soybeans/corn trade off on same Midwest land use) and livestock genes.
$100,000 for after-school programs at the Chicago Jesuit Academy.
Several million dollars for a project at Chicago State University (we don't know what that is)
$750,000 earmark for renovation of a space center named for Crown’s grandfather, Henry Crown, at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. (Awesome, place if you have never been there for the whole family/schools/educational)Crown, by the way, is a major benefactor, and mentor for a family circle that extends to the Northwestern community, the city of Chicago, and the Jewish community worldwide.
Beginning of Quote:"Senator Barack Obama on Thursday released a list of $740 million in earmarked spending requests that he had made over the last three years, and his campaign challenged Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to do the same."
In 2006, Obama sought, but did not secure, $900,000 for a "Go Girl Go" sports initiative aimed at discouraging socially risky behavior in teenage girls by encouraging them to pursue physical activities. The group was founded by the former tennis star Billie Jean King. But King has endorsed Clinton for president.
"Based on the release by his campaign, Mr. Obama was able to obtain only about $3 out of every $10 he requested....BY SENATE APPROVAL
Kelly M. Sullivan, the medical center’s vice president for communications and marketing, noted that Mr. Obama had also requested money for a number of other hospitals in Illinois, and she said any lobbying for the money had been handled by the hospital’s government-affairs officials...."I can tell you with 100 percent certainty that Michelle Obama was not part of our lobbying over the request, not in any way,” Ms. Sullivan said. She said the hospital’s lobbyists often seek help on their own from both of the state’s senators."(End of Quote)
Mrs. Obama's VP salary is not out of line when you see the amounts of money sort after and actually raised for these Institutions/Medical/BioTech to stay tops in their fields See Example University of Chicago Information"
Obama and Mrs. O are invited to every fund raising event one might imagine, because of who they are; but the major benefactors, foundations with a history of aid to any community profect are higher on the list for contributions.
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This will hurt even more than his terrorist “pastor”.
My house needs a new pavilion, and I need a grand or so for cattle futures.
Plus, if the taxpayers could throw in 5 bucks for Powerball, I would appreciate it. TIA!
A new pavilion sounds nice. But, it is simply not the job of the Federal Government, or should I say, the Federal Income Tax Payer to build it.
And, this is true for the rest of the billions spent in this way.
Regardless that Obama's request for the hospital was not approved, it remains that constitutional "expert" Obama is clueless that his request was based on non-existent federal government powers in the first place.
This post (<-click), although addressing a tax-related issue, explains in more detail why misguided politicians like Obama are actually in contempt of the Constitution that they have sworn to defend, a consequence of unthinkingly following in the footsteps of FDR's dirty federal spending politics.
The bottom line is that the people need to reconnect with the intentions of the Founders as reflected by the Constitution and its history. The people need to wise up to the very serious problem that the federal government is not operating within the restraints of the federal Constitution as evidenced by constitutionally unauthorized federal spending. The people need to quit sitting on their hands and petition big-shot federal spenders like Obama to resign from their jobs as opposed to trying to put people like him in the Oval Office.